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Unionism
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Herbert on the History of Higher Ed Collective Bargaining
Bill Herbert (Hunter College) recently did an interview with Radio Higher Ed: "A Primer on Unionization and Collective Bargaining in U.S. higher Education Institutions." According to the summary:This primer on…
Labor & Employment Report
Are College Football Players Employees? The NLRB General Counsel Thinks So!
Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?... Griffin?...Griffin?...Griffin?.... Readers of this blog likely know the first reference. But, how about the second? Give yourself a hand if you said "Richard F. Griffin, Jr., General Counsel (GC)…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Herbert on Higher Education Unionization
Bill Herbert (Hunter College) has posted on SSRN his article, The Winds of Changes Shift: An Analysis of Recent Growth in Bargaining Units and Representation Efforts in Higher Education, which…
The Right Coast
Columbia University Grad Students Join UAW After Battle for Right to Unionize – WSJ
The case brought before the NLRB by the Columbia students was stiffly fought by some of the pre-eminent private universities around the nation, including Harvard University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…
Sports Shorts
Fight or strike: will UFC fighters unionise?
A decade ago, Senator John McCain famously described Mixed Martial Arts ("MMA") as little more than "human cockfighting" and sent letters to 50 governors asking them to ban the, then…
Labor Days
NLRB Takeaway: Comply, Even if You Think You Don’t Have To
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a recent Advice Memorandum in Northwestern University, NLRB Case 13-CA-157467, with a strange, but practical, takeaway for employers: even if…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
And About “Embarrassing” Student Teaching Assistant Handbooks….
My colleague Jarad Lucan returns today with an update on a post regarding the impact that recent labor law decisions are having on colleges and universities. Two years ago, my…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
NLRB Allows Student Assistants to Unionize, Signals Commitment to Expanding Its Reach
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or “the Board”) reversed standing precedent and held that student assistants at private universities, including both graduate and undergraduate teaching and…
Labor & Employment Report
The NLRB Changes Its Mind Again
As many of you may have heard and as we discussed in our August E-Update, last week in The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, the…
Vorys on Labor
Student Assistants at Private Colleges and Universities Can Unionize
By Nelson Cary, George Stevens
Last week, the NLRB majority ruled that undergraduate and graduate students providing services as teaching or research assistants at private colleges and universities could be “employees” of their school within…